Zikula currently has a News module but we would like to implement PageMaster<ref>http://community.zikula.org/module-Extensions-display-ot-component-componentid-99.htm</ref>, which will generate a lot of the code needed to develop and implement a publications workflow.

Zikula currently has a News module but we would like to implement PageMaster<ref>http://community.zikula.org/module-Extensions-display-ot-component-componentid-99.htm</ref>, which will generate a lot of the code needed to develop and implement a publications workflow.

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Based on this, let's iterate over the proposed workflow:

Based on this, let's iterate over the proposed workflow:

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'''1) Define beat writer and editor roles in Zikula'''

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{{Anchor|Roles}}

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== Define beat writer and editor roles in Zikula ==

* Zikula will be integrated with FAS, so the base level authorization will be as writers;

* Zikula will be integrated with FAS, so the base level authorization will be as writers;

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* publish the edited articles for publication onto Fedora Insight

* publish the edited articles for publication onto Fedora Insight

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{{Anchor|Publications}}

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== Define publications types ==

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Fedora Insight will have the following publication types

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* Fedora Weekly News

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* interviews

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* podcasts

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* Fedora TV episodes

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{{Anchor|Categories}}

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== Defining Categories and Tags controlled list for content ==

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Each current beat should have its own category in Zikula.

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These manifest as values in the "Beat" publication field of the "Fedora Weekly

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News" publication type.

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* Ambassadors

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* Announcements

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* Design

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* Fedora Planet

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* KDE

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* Marketing

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* Quality Assurance

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* Security Advisories

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* Translation

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* Virtualization

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{{Anchor|Workflow}}

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== Workflow for submitting news items ==

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Beat writers write up their beats as one posting in Fedora Insight, and assign it the appropriate news category that is equivalent to the beat they are writing. I added all of the current active beats to this as categories within the "news" module in Zikula on publictest6.

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Beat writers would complete their beats and leave these as unpublished

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for the editors to check over and then publish. This is a simple option

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in Zikula's editing and posting options when you are editing an item.

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Separating these into categories also allows subscribers some more

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granularity in subscribing at the beat level within FWN with the RSS

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functionality, should they wish.

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Currently, the create publication link is only available in the Admin panel. We will need to add this to a logged-in user's sidepanel

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{{Anchor|Editing}}

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== Editing Articles ==

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xinhua will provide functionality for embedding URL references, which

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could be back to the wiki, external links, and perhaps even to the other

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beats in a given issue. There was some discussion on the news list back

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in the late summer about challenges with doing linking with just the

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vanilla Zikula,

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{{Anchor|Publishing}}

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== Publishing Articles ==

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An FWN Editor will mark all articles as "published" after final editing, and this will make them viewable on the FI site.

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== Vanilla E-mail Version ==

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The final step is a plain ascii version of the content suitable for mailing out to fedora-news-list and fedora-announce-list. Probably the easiest way to do this is to pull the individual RSS articles together and transform into a printable version.

Beat writers write up their beats as one posting in Fedora Insight, and assign it the appropriate news category that is equivalent to the beat they are writing. I added all of the current active beats to this as categories within the "news" module in Zikula on publictest6.

Beat writers would complete their beats and leave these as unpublished
for the editors to check over and then publish. This is a simple option
in Zikula's editing and posting options when you are editing an item.
Separating these into categories also allows subscribers some more
granularity in subscribing at the beat level within FWN with the RSS
functionality, should they wish.

Currently, the create publication link is only available in the Admin panel. We will need to add this to a logged-in user's sidepanel

xinhua will provide functionality for embedding URL references, which
could be back to the wiki, external links, and perhaps even to the other
beats in a given issue. There was some discussion on the news list back
in the late summer about challenges with doing linking with just the
vanilla Zikula,

The final step is a plain ascii version of the content suitable for mailing out to fedora-news-list and fedora-announce-list. Probably the easiest way to do this is to pull the individual RSS articles together and transform into a printable version.

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